prefigurative

English

Adjective

prefigurative (comparative more prefigurative, superlative most prefigurative)

1. Showing by prefiguration.
   • 1818, Thomas Hartwell Horne, Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures:

     The whole of this process seems to be typical or prefigurative of the grand atonement to be made for the sins of the whole world by Jesus Christ

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prefigurative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)